Solutions for memory stick name!

2005-09-27 Thread Carstea Catalin
What is the simple way to know my memory stick name? With dmesg i know if my memory stick is mount but i want to know the complete name. Ex.: da0s1 ... -- Any help would be greatly appreciated. regards, Carstea Catalin ___

Re: using procmail rules to handle old maildir

2005-09-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-27 06:43, Brian Josefsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I don't know if it's appropriate to ask this question here, but now i'll give it a try. I've set up postfix on a new box with maildir support, and i've been using procmail to deliver all my mail, so i now have the rules

Re: Solutions for memory stick name!

2005-09-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 26), Carstea Catalin said: What is the simple way to know my memory stick name? With dmesg i know if my memory stick is mount but i want to know the complete name. Ex.: da0s1 ... One way is by loading the geom_label module. Then you will get a /dev/msdosfs/###

Re: diskless boot failure after installing xorg

2005-09-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Nørgaard wrote: /home -alldirs -network 192.168.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 /var/diskless/FreeBSD -ro -mapall=root:wheel -network 192.168.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 /var/diskless/192.168.0.16/var 192.168.0.16 42cm error: -mapall should be -maproot Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818

FreeBSD 5.4 on HP ML370 G4

2005-09-27 Thread Davidson Thaba
Hi there, I have been trying to setup FreeBSD 5.4 on a HP ML370 G4. The server has a Smart Array 641 with raid 5 configuration. The installation goes on well but the machine hungs on restart after completing the installation. Tried firmware upgrade but this didn't help. I have tested the

Subject: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Graham Bentley
Better question: How to do 1024x768 high resolution framebuffer console with Beastie logo in the TLH Corner ? The Penguine does this out of the box ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Subject: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-27 08:24, Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better question: How to do 1024x768 high resolution framebuffer console with Beastie logo in the TLH Corner ? I don't think that's currently possible. The Penguine does this out of the box That's not a very compelling argument

XFig and more?

2005-09-27 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
Hi, In the Unix world, XFig has been one of the popular programmes to produce diagrams. Would there any more tools like XFig which is very suit to use together with LaTeX? (For example, I have heard that there is a text-base graphic tool or something?) Cheers,

apf like tool for freebsd

2005-09-27 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Is there a tool in FreeBSD to use as anti-dos and brute force prevention automation tool which apf does it for Linux (using iptables). I especially interested in tools which is based on IPFilter.. --- Omer Faruk Sen http://www.EnderUNIX.ORG Software Development

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-27 Thread Andrew P.
On 9/24/05, Gordon Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop. I've mounted on the desktop the /usr/ports directory from the server. My idea being that I could share the one /usr/ports directory amongst my machines and save disc

Re: ATTN: Gary Kline

2005-09-27 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 9/27/05, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 26 Sep 2005 it looks like Kris Kennaway composed: You are blocking mail from me again: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host ns1.thought.org[216.231.43.140] said: 550 5.0.0 No SPAM (in reply to MAIL FROM command) This has been an

Re: PHP4 PHP5 on same server?

2005-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Bucciarelli wrote: Is it possible install both php4 and php5 on the same server using ports? I'm using fastcgi so two different interpreters should be fine. (Rename /usr/local/bin/php to /usr/local/bin/php5-fcgi, for example.) Can I assume the php4 and php5 modules (for example, pear)

Re: mysql port install

2005-09-27 Thread eoghan
Peter Clutton wrote: It just the way it got pasted. I grabbed it from samba (yep, got that working :) )... theres no actual spaces in the file. Im not sure what David means? If i run pkg_info | grep mysql i see version 4.1.14 for I had exactly the same problem you are having until i

New user

2005-09-27 Thread Tharaka Abeysekera
Hi… I’m a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I’m pissed off with Windows . Regards, Tharaka - Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Ruud Jansen
* Tharaka Abeysekera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi? I?m a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I?m pissed off with Windows . Regards, Tharaka Hello! If you gave us a little bit more information about what you

Re: Subject: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Björn König
Graham Bentley wrote: The Penguine does this out of the box I suggest Crux[1] if you want to play a bit with a BSD-style operating system, but don't miss a Linux kernel. [1] http://www.crux.nu/ Regards Björn ___

DPMS on laptop not working

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Clark
Hi, I just installed Freebsd on a Dell Latitude C600 with 14 SXGA screen. It needs to be on all the time so I need a way of turning the screen off. I have played with sysctl hw.acpi.* thingies to get it to suspend. But none of the power states only turn the screen off. I want to

Re: mysql port install

2005-09-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:19 AM 9/27/2005, eoghan wrote: Peter Clutton wrote: It just the way it got pasted. I grabbed it from samba (yep, got that working :) )... theres no actual spaces in the file. Im not sure what David means? If i run pkg_info | grep mysql i see version 4.1.14 for I had exactly the same

Re: Cleanup unused files and other junk ...

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Micah wrote: jonas wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:50:21 +0200 Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a good and dependable procedure for cleaning up the file systems from unused junk that just clutters valuable disc space? I am already aware of the 'periodic daily' scripts

Re: XFig and more?

2005-09-27 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:17:47AM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: (For example, I have heard that there is a text-base graphic tool or something?) Gnuplot maybe? http://www.gnuplot.info/ It's in the ports: /usr/ports/math/gnuplot bye, Uwe ___

Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
John Hoover wrote: On 9/26/05, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP (sorry) and on the other hand good old FreeBSD. My question: is it possible to exchange data files between both both operaing systems in an easy and efficient way?

Re: mysql port install

2005-09-27 Thread eoghan
Glenn Dawson wrote: At 02:19 AM 9/27/2005, eoghan wrote: Peter Clutton wrote: It just the way it got pasted. I grabbed it from samba (yep, got that working :) )... theres no actual spaces in the file. Im not sure what David means? If i run pkg_info | grep mysql i see version 4.1.14 for

file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
jonas wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:57:28 +0200 Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP (sorry) and on the other hand good old FreeBSD. My question: is it possible to exchange data files between both both operaing systems in an easy

Re: mysql port install

2005-09-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
eoghan wrote: Hi Glenn Yes i have tried this and i get: This: not found I think there is something fundamentally wrong with my install? I started acting up when i tried to do a sysintall upgrade which didnt complete (perl and others wouldnt install for xorg i think). Ive learnt a lot in the

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 9/27/05, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... hello, when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see below) then in windows. how come ?? e.g.: $ ll -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel734 Mar 1 2005 a.txt -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel649 Mar 16 2003 A.txt~ -rwxr-x---

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 9/27/05, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... hello, when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see below) then in windows. how come ?? e.g.: $ ll -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel734 Mar 1 2005 a.txt -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel649 Mar 16 2003

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
martinko wrote: Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 9/27/05, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... hello, when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see below) then in windows. how come ?? e.g.: $ ll -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel734 Mar 1 2005 a.txt -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel

Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...

2005-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
John Hoover wrote: On 9/26/05, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP (sorry) and on the other hand good old FreeBSD. My question: is it possible to exchange data files between both both operaing systems in an easy and

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: martinko wrote: Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 9/27/05, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... hello, when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see below) then in windows. how come ?? e.g.: $ ll -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel734 Mar 1 2005 a.txt

Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Jerry McAllister wrote: John Hoover wrote: On 9/26/05, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP (sorry) and on the other hand good old FreeBSD. My question: is it possible to exchange data files between both both operaing systems in

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Derrick Test
thats a big question. the handbook off the website is a great resource. On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Tharaka Abeysekera wrote: Hi… I’m a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I’m pissed off with Windows . Regards,

USB modem

2005-09-27 Thread RGKärcher
Hi guys , Would it be possible to make it works the ADSL Amigo HMX - CA85UR - K8 (USB) Conexant Modem under FREEBSD ? Please , if any of you have succedeed , please let me know . Thanks in advance , Richard Karcher Ricardo german Kärcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: XFig and more?

2005-09-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Soo-Hyun Choi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the Unix world, XFig has been one of the popular programmes to produce diagrams. Would there any more tools like XFig which is very suit to use together with LaTeX? (For example, I have heard that there is a text-base graphic tool or something?)

Re: user account changes lost on reboot

2005-09-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jarrod Harch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jarrod Harch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I just setup a new 5.4 install, which went fairly well. I added some accounts - I used adduser to do one account, and logged on as the user OK. The other account was created when I installed gdm as the display

Re: Mounting NetBSD disk under FreeBSD.

2005-09-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
FC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am switching from NetBSD to FreeBSD and I have to get some data from a disk labeled on NetBSD 2.0. I would like to mount this disk on my new FreeBSD-5.4. But the only devices which shows on /dev are ad1 and ad1s1. The devices for each partitions are missing

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
martinko wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: martinko wrote: Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 9/27/05, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... hello, when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see below) then in windows. how come ?? e.g.: $ ll -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel734 Mar

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Hi I'm a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I'm pissed off with Windows . One place to wstart is to break your lines in your messages at about 70 characters. It makes your posting easier to read and reply to

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread Micah
martinko wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: martinko wrote: Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 9/27/05, martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... hello, when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see below) then in windows. how come ?? e.g.: $ ll -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel734 Mar

server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Lieurance
Hello, Our file server is a compaq proliant 320DL 1U w/ 512MB ram, 18GB 320 scsi, 73GB 320 scsi, P3 1 Ghz, running FreeBSD 4.9, samba 3.0.5. HAd it for about 16 months, been running great. About 3 months ago it rebooted with nothing in the logs or any track of a problem. I chalked it up to

Re: tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date

2005-09-27 Thread Gareth Bailey
Hi Tim, 5-STABLE is sufficiently different that the patch doesn't apply, unfortunately. It will take me a few days to figure out whether it's best to work up a different patch for 5-STABLE or whether I should MFC a lot of work from 6-STABLE to 5-STABLE. Unfortunately our server is also on

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 14:22, martinko wrote: ok. unfortunately i forgot most of my knowledge from the old days of ms-dos but what i can say even without it is this -- it's not about windows explorer only. i can see the correct file names in all applications (under windows of course), i

Re: Webcams and FreeBSD

2005-09-27 Thread Ned Harrison
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 13:40 +0200, John Oxley wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 05:05:24AM -0500, Ned Harrison wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 as a desktop operating system on my home computer. I would like to set up a webcam for physical security/nature observation while I'm away from the

Re: sendmail or another mail server?

2005-09-27 Thread Randy Schultz
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Efren Bravo spaketh thusly: -}Hi, -} -}I've installed a fBSD and now I'm tuning it 'cause I need to put it to -}serve as mail server. -} -}My questions is if sendmail is able to serve as a serious mail server or I -}should try with another software for this job. -}

Re: Webcams and FreeBSD

2005-09-27 Thread Ned Harrison
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 13:23 +0200, vittorio wrote: Alle 12:05, domenica 25 settembre 2005, Ned Harrison ha scritto: I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 as a desktop operating system on my home computer. I would like to set up a webcam for physical security/nature observation while I'm away from the

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:15, Micah wrote: ps: and, btw, how freebsd knows there's a capital A in A.txt~ ? because it's stored on the filesystem in that way, i guess. being case-insensitive doesn't (necessarily) mean a FS doesn't keep a case, imho. The reason is as follows: a.txt

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread jonas
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:04:06 -0400 (EDT) Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi I'm a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I'm pissed off with Windows . One place to wstart is to break your lines

Re: tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date

2005-09-27 Thread Gareth Bailey
Just to add, I seem to be experiencing similar behaviour using the -P option: # tar -P -cvf archive.tar /usr/archive/Pimani/ .. files get added # tar -P -uvf archive.tar /usr/archive/Pimani/ a /usr/archive/Pimani/Pimani Presentation/multimedia/August 2005/LM_001_PRINT_050119/Thumbs.db a

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread Micah
RW wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:15, Micah wrote: ps: and, btw, how freebsd knows there's a capital A in A.txt~ ? because it's stored on the filesystem in that way, i guess. being case-insensitive doesn't (necessarily) mean a FS doesn't keep a case, imho. The reason is as

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one. Sincerely, A sincere Christian who doesn't understand what all the fuss is about.

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Ashley Moran
Tharaka Abeysekera wrote: Hi… I’m a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I’m pissed off with Windows . Regards, Tharaka It might be worth looking for local users group near you. If you haven't got a lot of

Questions regarding FreeBSD packages and dependancies

2005-09-27 Thread Milscvaer
When I upgrade a package, say Gaim, and if I would also like all of its library dependancies to be upgraded, if new versions of certian libraries, such as Gtk are installed, will the old versions of Gtk remain in place and older programs that had been using the older version will continue to use

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Josh Ockert
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one. Sincerely, A sincere Christian who doesn't understand

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one. Sincerely, A sincere Christian who doesn't

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:56, Micah wrote: The directory structure of fat32 is still the same as from dos. In order to create long filenames, Windows uses subsequent directory entries to store the extra filename characters. If a filename fits the 8.3 format, Windows (at least Win98)

Re: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work

2005-09-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:17:02AM -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote: Hello, Our file server is a compaq proliant 320DL 1U w/ 512MB ram, 18GB 320 scsi, 73GB 320 scsi, P3 1 Ghz, running FreeBSD 4.9, samba 3.0.5. HAd it for about 16 months, been running great. About 3 months ago it rebooted

Re: tar -u adds all files regardless of mod date

2005-09-27 Thread Tim Kientzle
Thanks, Gareth. I'm hoping to get some time this week to backport a lot of changes from bsdtar/libarchive in -CURRENT back to 5-STABLE. I'll let you know when I get that done. Tim Gareth Bailey wrote: Just to add, I seem to be experiencing similar behaviour using the -P option: # tar -P

Re: DPMS on laptop not working

2005-09-27 Thread Fabian Keil
Paul Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Freebsd on a Dell Latitude C600 with 14 SXGA screen. It needs to be on all the time so I need a way of turning the screen off. I want to get DPMS working so I can do xset dpms force off but it doesn't work. Nothing happens and I get

Re: Questions regarding FreeBSD packages and dependancies

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 16:21, Milscvaer wrote: I tried to use pkg_add to install a new program from stable, however, it complained about older versions of gtk being installed and refused to continue. Why not just leave the old versions of Gtk there so existing programs may continue to

Re: New user

2005-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:04:06 -0400 (EDT) Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi I'm a new to UNIX, I got to know about your services recently. Please tell me ware to start FreeBSD(UNIX) . Because I'm pissed off with Windows . One place to wstart is to

Re: Questions regarding FreeBSD packages and dependancies

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 17:15, RW wrote: I don't use packages much, but I think it's the case that a package won't install if it was built against a dependency that is newer that the one you have installed. Note GTK1 and GTK2 are separate and can co-exists, so I think you need to

Set options to deamons

2005-09-27 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, How do I set options to deamons? For instance, I've been reading a security doc and it says: Syslogd can be attacked directly and it's strongly recommended that you use -s option whenever possible, and the -a option otherwise. If Syslogd start when the OS start, how do I set the -s option.

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread John Adams
-Original Message- From: Josh Ockert [EMAIL PROTECTED] There isn't a fuss. Someone asked for help. The only fuss is coming from Ted, who insists that any slight against Beastie is a Fundamentalist Christian Crusade. It was particularly funny to see it directed against someone whose

Re: Set options to deamons

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 18:32, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, How do I set options to deamons? For instance, I've been reading a security doc and it says: Syslogd can be attacked directly and it's strongly recommended that you use -s option whenever possible, and the -a option otherwise. If

Re: Set options to deamons

2005-09-27 Thread Micah
Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, How do I set options to deamons? For instance, I've been reading a security doc and it says: Syslogd can be attacked directly and it's strongly recommended that you use -s option whenever possible, and the -a option otherwise. If Syslogd start when the OS start, how

Re: XFig and more?

2005-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: Hi, In the Unix world, XFig has been one of the popular programmes to produce diagrams. Would there any more tools like XFig which is very suit to use together with LaTeX? (For example, I have heard that there is a text-base graphic tool or something?)

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:27, Josh Ockert wrote: There isn't a fuss. Someone asked for help. The only fuss is coming from Ted, who insists that any slight against Beastie is a Fundamentalist Christian Crusade. I get your point - truly, I do. I also get that Ted was being, well, Ted.

hdparm like program for freebsd?

2005-09-27 Thread Vincent Stipo
Is there a hdparm like program which can benchmark individual harddrives. hdparm -tT and give the burst rate, allong with sequencial read / write? -- Vincent Stipo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work

2005-09-27 Thread Jason Lieurance
Kris Kennaway said: Check power supply, CPU cooling, try putting it behind a UPS in case your AC power is dropping out (e.g. due to increased load from something kicking in every 9 hours, etc). I will check PS and cooling. It's on a good apc ups so that's not it. Also, forget 9 hrs, it just

Re: dockapp virtual desktop switcher

2005-09-27 Thread Eric Schuele
Brian John wrote: Hello, I am running fluxbox and I don't like the method of using the scrollbar and/or hotkeys to switch desktops (even though it is easy). On my windows box at work I have an app called 'goscreen' installed. It allows me to see a preview of what is on each desktop and

Re: Unable to install 5.4 from CDROM

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Jones
On 9/16/05, Mark Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having an odd problem installing 5.4 release from CDROM. The machine is an HP ProLiant DL145. It didn't come with a CDROM drive, I borrowed one from a Dell PowerEdge SC1425. The CDs are good, I've installed on other machines with them - in

pfctl not found

2005-09-27 Thread XBO
Hello, I've tried to enable pf on my 5.4-RELEASE installation recently. It was installed behind the firewall before, so back then I turned PF off in /etc/make.conf. After removing the line from /etc/make.conf and rebuilding the kernel, it still failes to load pf and it seems to me that the kernel

Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 06:27 am, martinko wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: John Hoover wrote: On 9/26/05, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dual-boot laptop running on the one hand Windows XP (sorry) and on the other hand good old FreeBSD. My question: is it possible to

Re: Set options to deamons

2005-09-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 12:32:14PM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, How do I set options to deamons? For instance, I've been reading a security doc and it says: Syslogd can be attacked directly and it's strongly recommended that you use -s option whenever possible, and the -a option

RE: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work

2005-09-27 Thread Gayn Winters
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Lieurance Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:57 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work Kris Kennaway said: Check power supply,

Re: hdparm like program for freebsd?

2005-09-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 27), Vincent Stipo said: Is there a hdparm like program which can benchmark individual harddrives. hdparm -tT and give the burst rate, allong with sequencial read / write? Try rawio, iozone, or bonnie in ports. There's also the base system command diskinfo which will

Re: Mounting NetBSD disk under FreeBSD.

2005-09-27 Thread FC
On Sep 27, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: *** This message was sent to your KasMail disposable email address: FC [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am switching from NetBSD to FreeBSD and I have to get some data from a disk labeled on NetBSD 2.0. I would like to

RE: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work

2005-09-27 Thread Bob Middaugh
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gayn Winters Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:20 PM To: 'Jason Lieurance'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work -Original Message-

Re: XFig and more?

2005-09-27 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
Nothing wrong with XFig for me. Just my curiosity to know what kind of tools there are. SH On 27 Sep 2005 09:48:10 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soo-Hyun Choi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the Unix world, XFig has been one of the popular programmes to produce diagrams.

libssl, c, briefly...

2005-09-27 Thread Gary Kline
Just a short ACK to those who offered clues on howto get my ssh/scp apps working again. Thanks! times 25! Dunno what I bungled, but rebuilding /usr/src/secure/openssl/* fixed just about everything on my ThinkPad. Now, after spending 14+ hours yesterday,

Re: pfctl not found

2005-09-27 Thread Björn König
XBO wrote: Hello, I've tried to enable pf on my 5.4-RELEASE installation recently. It was installed behind the firewall before, so back then I turned PF off in /etc/make.conf. After removing the line from /etc/make.conf and rebuilding the kernel, it still failes to load pf and it seems to me

Limit client connections ssh

2005-09-27 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, I'm using ssh to connect me to fBSD server, how can I limit the client connections?, I mean, I only only that the server(ssh) accept incoming connections from a specific IP or IPs range? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Limit client connections ssh

2005-09-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, I'm using ssh to connect me to fBSD server, how can I limit the client connections?, I mean, I only only that the server(ssh) accept incoming connections from a specific IP or IPs range? Thanks Why not limit the traffic to/from the ssh port via a firewall, like

Re: 5.4 installation trouble

2005-09-27 Thread Ivailo Bonev
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 06:52:55 +0300, James Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a toshiba satelite a25 laptop running windows xp right now pentium 3 with 512mb ram, with 40 gb unpartitioned space (35 or so has been reserved for bsd). I made 3 .iso's from nero, taken from the files on

Re: Backup

2005-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi list, can I make a copy using dd command from a HD scsi Maxtor 36 GB to a HD IDE Sansung 40 GB ? You can, but you probably do not want to. Although you don't say much about what you are trying to do, I am guessing you want to duplicate the 36 GB disk on the 40 GB drive. Since they

Dead links everywhere ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
If I click on hyperlinks (email wherever) nothings happens. I'm afraid I messed up my xfce desktop and need to restore this (using mimetypes)? Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: PHP4 PHP5 on same server?

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:16:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Bucciarelli wrote: Is it possible install both php4 and php5 on the same server using ports? I'm using fastcgi so two different interpreters should be fine. (Rename /usr/local/bin/php to /usr/local/bin/php5-fcgi, for

Firefox won't stay as default browser ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
Every time I fire up firefox it claims it is not the default browser. If I click on yes to make it the default browser or go into Prferences | General and hit the Default Browser [Check Now]-button and/or I restart firefox, I still get the message that it is NOT the default browser. Nothing

Re: hdparm like program for freebsd?

2005-09-27 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 9/27/05, Vincent Stipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a hdparm like program which can benchmark individual harddrives. hdparm -tT and give the burst rate, allong with sequencial read / write? You can also use dd for that, at least for the sequential read / write thing, probably with

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 27, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:27, Josh Ockert wrote: There isn't a fuss. Someone asked for help. The only fuss is coming from Ted, who insists that any slight against Beastie is a Fundamentalist Christian Crusade. I get your point -

Re: Limit client connections ssh

2005-09-27 Thread Jon Krause
- Original Message - From: Efren Bravo : Hi, : : I'm using ssh to connect me to fBSD server, how can I limit the client : connections?, I mean, I only only that the server(ssh) accept incoming : connections from a specific IP or IPs range? : : Thanks : Look at/etc/hosts.allow

Re: Limit client connections ssh

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:27:26PM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: I'm using ssh to connect me to fBSD server, how can I limit the client connections?, I mean, I only only that the server(ssh) accept incoming connections from a specific IP or IPs range? You can restrict to a subset of your system

Portsdb returns error after cvsup - How to Proceed?

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Kane
Hi everyone. I CVSupped yesterday to make sure I got the Firefox fix. My plan was to do the following: # cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile # portsdb -Uu # portversion -l # portupgrade -arR After cvsupping and running portsdb -Uu, I got an error which is at the end of my email. Today I tried a

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread Micah
RW wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:56, Micah wrote: The directory structure of fat32 is still the same as from dos. In order to create long filenames, Windows uses subsequent directory entries to store the extra filename characters. If a filename fits the 8.3 format, Windows (at

Re: Firefox won't stay as default browser ...

2005-09-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kiffin Gish wrote: Every time I fire up firefox it claims it is not the default browser. If I click on yes to make it the default browser or go into Prferences | General and hit the Default Browser [Check Now]-button and/or I restart firefox, I still get the message that it is NOT the default

Re: Portsdb returns error after cvsup - How to Proceed?

2005-09-27 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:33 pm, Mark Kane wrote: Hi everyone. I CVSupped yesterday to make sure I got the Firefox fix. My plan was to do the following: # cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile # portsdb -Uu # portversion -l # portupgrade -arR After cvsupping and running portsdb -Uu, I got an

Re: Portsdb returns error after cvsup - How to Proceed?

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Kane
Kent Stewart wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:33 pm, Mark Kane wrote: Hi everyone. I CVSupped yesterday to make sure I got the Firefox fix. My plan was to do the following: # cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile # portsdb -Uu # portversion -l # portupgrade -arR After cvsupping and running

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:46:49 +0400 Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/24/05, Gordon Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop. snip Like others have already told you here, the best solution is packaging. There is a

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a

Tried everything to create a new slice...

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Clark
Hi all, I have a 6gb slice on a 10gb drive. I want to make use of the unused 4gb by creating a new slice in it and mounting /home on it. If I use sysinstall in multi or single user mode it says: ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0! I have tried using the live cd but the keyboard map is

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread martinko
Micah wrote: The reason is as follows: a.txt is an 8.3 filename and is stored on fat32 in the old dos format. a.txt~ is NOT an 8.3 filename and is stored on fat32 in the extended long filename format. Case information is not stored in 8.3's file names. They're always the same case, but I

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